envoy

envoy 

‘messenger’

Lexical development traced from the Tamil root:

     E. envoyé ‘messenger; a message; a sending; the postscript of a poem’ < envoyer ‘send’ < Vulgar Lat. inviare ‘send on one’s way’ < Lat. in ‘on’ + via ‘road’ < en < en < Tamil il-iṉ